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US Software, Systems Engineer

Tuesday Sep 02, 2008

No, not a reference to the Democratic and Republican conferences these past few weeks. Although I think...

Wait, off topic. So I have found that people are reluctant to change. No news there. Not talking politics but it still applies. I have a customer whose wife was unknowingly using OpenOffice for a while. When reminded she grabbed for what she knew. I can only use MS Office. But do you really MS Office ? Maybe not. What follows is an excerpt from the email sent to me...

I came home last night and my wife was doing class work, and I asked her if she was having any problems and how the program was working for her. She said she wasn't having any problems. Then I let her know that when I rebuilt her PC I couldn't find her MS Office CDs, so I installed Open Office instead. With a little shocked and exhaspirated voice she said, "Whaaat? I have to have Microsoft Office...." I responded "Have you noticed that you weren't using it?"... she said "Oh, Shut up." and she went back to work.